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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-09-01, Page 3TiIRTY.EJGllT 1VIET DEATH Terrible Wreck on the Lehigh Valley Railroad Near Manchester; N.Y. A despatch from Manchester, N, Y,, says: -Speeding eastward be-, bind time, Lehigh Valley passenger . train No. 4 ran into a: spread rail on a trestle near here o1. Friday and two day coaches from the mid- section of the train plunged down- ward forty feet, striking the east embankment like a pair of project- iles. In the awful plunge and crash at least thirey-seven persons are believed to have been killed al3d more than sixty injured. The in- jiuries of several •are so serious that it is feared they will die. The wreck was the worst in the history of the Lehigh Valley line in this state and one of the most disasti'e ous ever recorded on the system. Crowded with passengers, many of whom were war veterans and excur- sionists from the Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Rochester, train No. 4, made up of fourteen cars, drawn by two big mogul en- gines, was forty minutes late when it reached Rochester Junction, and from there sped eastward to make up time before reaching Geneva. The engine and two day coaches had just passed the centre of a four -hundred -foot trestle over Can- andaigua outlet, 150. yards east of the station at Manchester, at 12.35 o'clock, when the Pullman car Aus- tin, the third ear of a long train, left the rails. It dragged the din- ing car with it and. two day coaches and two Pullmans, in this order, fol- lowed. All bumped over the ties a short distance when the coupling between day coach No. 237 and the rear end of the diner broke. The forward end of the train dragged the derail- ed Pullman car Austin and the din- er over safely, ,after which both plunged down the south embank- ment and rolled over. The free end of the ill-fated Lehigh Valley day coach, where most of the slaughter 'secured. shoved out over the gulf end, followed by a Grand Trunk day mach,: stripped the rear .guard off • the south side bf the . trestle and plunged to the shallow river bed more than forty feet below. War and their wives. The end of the,first day coach that went over •struck 'the east embank- mont'of solid masonry and, with the other sixty -foot cars behind it, both shot against the wall with terrific force. Both cars were filled with human- ity as the plunge was 'made, and in a few minutes the cars lay, a mass of crumbled wood, metal and glass, under which a hundred men, women and children, many of whole were killed instantly, were buried. The most destruction occurred in the day coach No. 237, and a dozen per- sons were later taken dead from the second day coach, which, having fol- lowed the first over the trestle, snapped its rear coupling and thus saved the rest of the train from be- ing dragged over. This second day coach struck on the bottom and stood up, the rear end projecting a few feet above the top of the trestle. All of the pas- sengers in this car were piled in a tangled mass of broken seats at the bottom of the ear. Indescrable pandemonium follow- ed. The Pullman car, Emelyn, ` which remained on the bridge, with one end projecting over the gulch, and several cars behind it, derailed, 1 and n immedoate danger of going over on the mass of wreckage below, were soon emptied of all their pas- sengers, and these, aided by gangs of railroad employes from the big freight yards at Manchester, rush- ed to aid. As the groans of the inl- jured and dying were heard below, all possible speed was made, but it was several minutes before anybody reached the cars at the bottom tit effect rescues. It was necessary to chop through the sides and bottom and the work of removing the victims moved with painful slowness. Death had come swiftly to many, a large number of the dead having bad their skulls crushed in when they were thrown with terrible velocity against the car seats and projections. The mortality was high among the older passengers, most of whom were, bat - tie -scarred veterani. of tbe Civiij 2t KILLED IN FI.IiE' PANIC. Terrible Scenes in 'loving Picture Show in Pel►nsylvaino, A despatch from Canonsburg, Pa., says :-Twenty-six dead from suffocatit, , twenty-five seriously in- jured, and thirty' suffering from minor hurts. That is the human toll exacted on Saturday night dur- ing an inexcusable panic at a. mov- ing -picture show in the Canonsburg Opera House. The moving -picture machine developed a slight defect. There oceured a noise like a "click." A small boy shouted "fire," at the same time starting for the narrow exit. Bolus Duprowski, a foreign miner, a giant in propor- tion. ,lumped from his seat and ran • wildly kr the same exit. In a. moment there was a fighting, strug- gling mass after him. At the head of a narrow stairway, which led to the street, the foreigner tripped. As he rolled down the stairs he swept others from their feet, who were a - .waiting their turn to enter the theatre, and soon thele was an in- describable pile of humanity at the foot of the steps, battling like mads, q, Sugar was advanced by ten cents • per hundred pounds. WESTERNERS TO TRAVEL. Prominent Business Men WM Visit Great Britain Next Year. A despatch from Winnipeg says, -One hundred prominent Western Canada business men will visit the chief industrial cities of 'Great Britain during June next year. This was definitely decided at a directors' meeting of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau on Thursday. Leading financial and commercial men representing all Western cities, will be invited to accompany tithe Winnipeg party, covering six weeks' itinerary abroad. ri+ TEN WERE KILLED. Motor Car Turned. Turtle in North of England. , A despatch from Newcastle, Eng., says :-Ten persons have been killed and several others have sustained injuries through the overturning on Saturday of a motor car near Con- sett. The car was in collision with a. carriage. Canal traffic shows a falling off for July, eheifly on :account of the decline, in ore shipping. WED COOKING A ]VEEAL Young Woman Held Bottle ox Alcohol Over Stove, Which Exploded. A despatch frons Cornwall, Ont,, says :-A terrible accident took • piece at the hoose of F. E. Bailey, Massen a, on Thursday, when his oldest daughter, Miss Mabel Bailey, one: of the most popular young ladies in 14lassen.a, was fatally burned. 'ktiss Bailey and her moth- er were preparing supper by an •a]eohol stove, and Mabel held the bottle of alcohol in her hand while lighting the stove. The flew ex- ploded in her hand, setting fire to her .clothing. She rushed from the house and threw herself on the grass in an effort to extinguish the flames, and was asateted by sever- al neighbors who saw her rush out. It was some time before the doctors arrived, but within fifteen or twenty minutes there were five of them wearing over her. Her 'legs were horribly burned from the ankle to the body, and her arms nearly to her shoulders: From the start the doctors realized that she was so badly `burned shecould not recov- er, and their efforts were mainly directed to lessening her sufferings. She died about twelve hours after the accident. She was 25 years of age, and was very popular. PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS 1 EIioJrr'S FROM TIi>; I:i:;;klDli' TRADE CF.XfI€ES OF ['rices of Cattle, Grain, :'Chcesa and Other Produce at Novae and Abroad. • BREADSTUPPS- Toronto, Aug, 29. -Flour -Winter wheat 90 per cent. patents, 03;35 to $3.40, 3101't - real freight. Manitoba flours --First Pat- ents, • $5,30; second patents, $4.80; and strong bakers', $4.60, on track, 'Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1..- 04 1-2, 1..- 041-2, Bay ports; No. 2 'at $1:031-2; and No. 3 at $1.011-2, Ontario wheat -New. No. 2 at 82e, out side, and 'old at 83 to 84o, outside Peas -87 to 88a f.o.b. cars, outside Oats -Ontario grades, 40e outside, for No- 2, and 43e, on track, Toronto. New No. 2 at 37c,' outside. No, 2 W. C. oasts at 421.2e, and No. 3 at 411.2e, 1Da-y part$•. Corn -No. 2 American yellowy 001'2(4 Bay ports, and 71e, Toronto. Rye -There is none offering, and prices' are nominal. Buckwheat -Nothing offering, Bran-Mauitobas at $22, in bags, To- ronto and shorts $25, in bags, Toronto. Ontario bran, $22, in bags. Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beaus -Small lots, $2.20 to 02.25. honey -Extracted, in tins, 21 to 21c per ib. Combs, $2 to . $2.60. Baled hay -No. 1 at $13 to $14, on track, and No: 2 at 011 to 314. Baled straw -$6 to `$6,50 on track, To ronto. Potatoes -New, in barrels, $4.50; and, per bush, $1.25 to 01.50. Poultry -Ducks; live, 11 to 12c; hens, alive, 12 to 13c;• chicks, lire, 13 to 150:. BUTTER AND EGGS. Butter -Dairy prints, 20 to 21e; znior= tor, 15 to 17e, Creamery 25 to 26c per lbs for rolls, and 23 to 24e for solids: Eggs -Strictly new -laid, 22 to 23e, anti• fresh at 18 to 19c per dozen, in ease lo HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 113.4e per ib., in case lots: Pork, short eut, 323; do., meds 021. Rams --Medium to. light, 17 to 180; ttr., heavy, 151.2 to 160; ro1Is, 111.2 to '12o; breakfast bacon, 17 to 18e; back, 191.2 to 20e. Lard -Tierces, 10 1-2c; tubs, ID3-4c;.,pails. 110. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL Montreal, .Aug.29. - ba e No. 2, 4133.4 to 44e, car lots, ex•e` extra No. 1 teed, 431.4 to 43 i -2e; No. $ C, W., 423.4' to 43. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 35.40; sec- onds, 34.90; winter wheat patents, $4.- 50 to 34.75; strong bakers', $4.70; straight rollers, 04 to 34.10; in bags, 31.85 to 32. Rolled oats -Per barrel, 34.75; bag of 90 lbs., $2.26• Corn --American, No. 3 yellow, 70e. Mlllfeed-•Bran, Ontario,- 322 to 023; Manitoba, 321 to $22; middlings, Ontario, 325 to 326; shorts, Manitoba, 324; mou- iilie, $25 to 331. Eggs-Seleeted, 22 to 24c; fresh, 171.2'to 18e; No. 1 stock, 121.2 to 20c. Cheese -Westerns, 123-4 to 131.8e; Eastern, 121-2 to 12 5-8c. Butter -Choi.,, test, 241.4 to 24 1-2e; seconds, 23 to 24e. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Aug. 29. --:!ming wheat -No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, $1.18; Winter, No. 2 red, 921-2c; No. 3 red, Ole; No. 2 white, 90e. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 681.4e; No. 4 yellow, 661.2e; No. 3 corn, 661.4e, all on track, through billed. Oats -No. 2 white, 43e; No. 3 white, 42 1.4e; No. 4 white, 41 1-4e. Barley -Malting, $1.14 to 31.22. Minneapolis, Aug. 29. -Wheat -Septem- ber, 31.02 3-4; December, $1.03 6-8; May, 31.- 07 1-4; 1:071.4; No. 1 hard, $1,073.4; No, 1 North- ern, $1,04 3.4 to 31.071:4; No. 2 Northern, 993.4e to $1,053.4;' No. 3 wheat, 963.4e to $1.02 3.4. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 621.2o. Oats -No. 2 white, 411.4 to 41 1.2o. ltye- No. 2, 18 to 80e. Bran -$20.50 to $21. Flour -First patents, .05 to 35.20; second pat- ents, 04.60 to 34.75; first clears, 33.35 to $3.65; second clears, 32.35 to $2.50. TIIRE GIBL FBOTV[ STEAMER Walter Hopper Arrested for ° Murder of Grace Lyons by Drowning A despateh from Detroit, says: -Crazed with jealousy. because his sweetheart, Grace Lyons, 'had re- fused to have anything mere to do with him, Walter Hopper of Philadelphia picked the girl up in his terms and threw her overboard from.the upper deck of the Puritan in the middle of Lake Michigan late on Saturday night. The boat was forty miles from shore when the deed was committed. Altl;ough a lifeboat was lowered within seven minutes, the crew failed to recover the body, which was drawn under by the suction of the wheel. News of the murder was flashed to Hol- land by wireless and officers were in waiting when the steamer reach- ed herr dock on the Michigan side, Hopper Was immediately- arrested on a eliarge of murder. The pri- 1 sones• expressed no regret over his action. According to Hopper's story, he and Miss Lyons had long been sweethearts and they were to !have been married in September. Miss Lyons left Chicago and it is a1- ; Jeged Hopper disguised himself and followed her to the boat. When he approaelied her she upbraided him b,ecauee he had been drinking. This angered Hopper and he lost eontro' I.of himself, he say, and picking up the 'girl he threw her overboard bodily. Hopper is thirty-one years old, and Miss Lyons was twenty- six, ATTU Win flESPERADO Winnipeg Policeman Shot and G-,.uotter .a Target for a Fusilade. :tit despatch from Winnipeg says : Constable Trainer was shot in the ,lung and Constable Brown was red at 15 times, but not bit, by three house -breakers whom the of ,vers were trying to arrest in linwood and North Winnipeg,,r u Wednesday afternoon. Trainer is e a serious condition. Two men "'re now in : the cells. The pnlieeo rere notified that house -breakers re at work about 3 o'clock, and .nstable. Trainer, en his motur- rrcle, started for Elmwood, un- med. He was informed that the an had gone to the segregated district, and located the01 at a house on Rachael street. 1 -Ie was refused ache issibo. and en going re e rear" door • was shot 'n the hip laid out. " Constable Brown. had ben -sent t '. hie anes' it - ,,;set �a 'e ff ei- the ,! en,'aFthey ,t, the House, and all of there opened fire on him in the street, and of 15 shots sent 1:1 his diree- LIVE STOCK MARKET@, Montreal, Aug. 29.-A fairly active trade was done, with sales of choice steers at 61.4e, good at 5 3-4 to 6c, fairly good at 51.4 to 51.2e, fair at 4 3.4 to 6c, and common at 4 1-2o per pound. Cows from 4 to 51.20, and bulls at from 3 to 4 1-2e per pound as to quality. Lambs sold at 6o and sheep 'at 4c per pound. The demand for. calves ,Was good, and sales were made at priees ranging from 33.00 to 410 each, as to size and quality. Sales of selected hogs were made et 37.50, and mixed and heavy lots at from 36 to $7.26 per cwt., weighted off cars. CHOLERA. CLOSES SCHOOLS. Twenty-eight Deaths a Day Report.; ed in Constantinople. A despatch fr'oni Constantinople says : There were twenty-eight deaths from cholera here In the twenty-four hours ending Wednes- day midnight, and fifty-five new cases reported. All the schools in the city have been closed. • Too many people waste their time in 'condemning the work of; others instead of spending it ia. trying to improve their own. 'tion only one same near b:sting him, cutting a. hole in the leg •;f his trousers. With another rfileer lie succeeded in cornering the trio in Euclid street, a few blocks from the segregated area. The final capture of the desperadoes oras due to •the presence of mind and courage of a youthful c•vilian The fugitives held np :. trolley ear on Euclid Avenue, but the ci• vilian, hearing the police rh histle, and seeing the fugitives urging the motorman to hasten, pulled -off the trolley. The men then hacked utt ' of the car, covering the pat,sen- gers and erew, and commandeered a horse and buggy driving by. Thi same youthful civilian grabbed the horse's 'head and ducked a fusilado of bullets froin the 'two despera- does; thus 'delaying them till the police ,axriv*ed and .effected.liheir• capthire'. . wa of •'thy 'peri serriete ed gave their narnes as Harry Ilei}y. and Frank .Jones, .both of Miuyzea- polis. BURNED AT THE STARE. 3,000 .Men, Women and Children Wateheil the Lynching. despatch from Purcell, Okla- hoi'na, says, -While 3,000 men, . wo- men and children stood by shouting their approval, Peter Carter, a negro, who had been captured by the members of his own race, identi- fied as the man who Wednesday night attacked Mrs. Minnie Sprag- ;dns, wife of a farmer, was burned to, death on a brush pile in tbe main street of Purcell at five o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Hayes and Under Sheriff Farris, who' attempted to rescue the Negro from the crowd, were over- powered and locked in the Court- house. LOSS OF $2,500,000. Extraordinary Effect of the Strike on British Lines., A despatch from London says. - British railways lost considerably more than £500,000• as a result of the two days' strike last week. The traffic returns published Friday night show an aggregate dee:ease of £405,000, whereas under normal conditions an increase of £00,000 might have been looked for. On the London and North-Western the falling off was £101,000, on the Great WesterneE91,000, on the Mid- land Line £54,000, and on the Lan- eashire and Yorkshire. and North- Eastern about £50.000 in each case: Of course, some of the traffic, on the big trade lines especially, is merely delayed, and there ought to be unusually good returns for the next week or two, but much of the revenue is irretrievably lost. - Mr. Nathan Overholt was killed by a train at Grimsby Beach. Forest fires have destroyed an im- mense quantity of pulpwood in Newfoundland. Capt, Crowe of the 30th soon the Governer -General's match at Ot- tawa, The Risley team was select- ed, hut Private Clifford tailed to qualify. A fire that caused serious damage to the stock of Fergus. Jamieson, merchant of Vankleck Hill, was started by burglars. The agreement by which the 0,P. R. obtain an interest in the Quebec C•entraI has been. completed, and awaits the ratification of the securi- ty holders of the smaller .railway. COPPE THE NEWS I1 A PA A AP ilAi'I'LNli`GS FIIOM ALL OVER THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada; the Empire and the Vitoria in General Before Your Eyes. CANADA. CAN ADA. Mrs, Allen Ifarn died at .London from injuries received in j uiepf,tig' off a moving street car. Bids for the construction or 0,0 new navy are still being consider ed at Ottawa, and itis not rikely. that the contract will be awarded for some time. GREAT BRITAIN. The British Hou'e ofC'ommo'ns. adjourned, The' Duke of Sutherland arrived' in Montreal on his way west, where he has bought large tracts of land. The last tenses returns give, Cheater .Lond,un a population of The Lit erpord strike was settled by the re-employment of tramway men. GENERAL. Leonardo da Vinci' mi;sterpiece,, "La Glacondo,'' has disappears from the Louvre, Paris. AND STILL THEY COME. '` Immigration Returns for July Sb' Marked Increase. f. A despatch from. Ottawa, says; During the month of July, immigrants arrived in Canada, 1S, 609' at ocean ports and 11,012 fro the United States. As compare with July of last year, the inereas is 17 per ceIlt. For chilly last yea the figures rere 19,019 at oeea ports and 9,188 Amerieaii.?. For th four months -of the current fire year arrivals at ocean ports num berets 127.995 and from the Unite States 54,814, making a total im mi;tiration from to July in elusive of 182,739. The correspond ing months last year gave 100,3'72 a oeean ports and 54,663 Americans making a total of 1516.571. ..:, 1 -M..,.. :.. ' WO MORE B DILS I O1;NID. More r'ietfills Added to Aveoent o the I'oreuthino Fire. : despatch from Porcupine says Evidence that the t atal number o dead in the NMulhine fire never be known is plainly :.now by the discovery..if the remains two glen recently-. O:t+' find wa made by J. 3. Andc wh+, wa loeiking ever some thr;ber sei Chisholm Vet in•Tisdale,., 'The sisal of a man .and a part of a hand uu der a small ledge of reek s.io:veh that the .victim sought refuge fe•e,p the fire there and lost his life An other skull has been felled nee Simpson Lake, in the northern par of 1)eioro. This victim tried ft es cape the names in a swallip. 1 linens:wedVrhiitTher • Was a ratline, olf in Births. A despatch from Montreal says Mont•real's death -rate increase slightly last year, while, un th other Bland, there was a falling o in the. number of births, aceordine to the annual rep ,rt ,f the healtl department. As t•,- births and mar riages, the record hie not alterec mush.. For the births the decrees: amounted to U.70 per 1,000, and av for the marring,:; they mere, de creased by 0,50 per 1,000. It 1. shown in the report that the death for 1910 numbered 10,221, e•r 242.4 MON'1'REAI.'S DEATH Id-1.'fIs. ENNING pet 1,000, as eulupuled with °�.U' 11er 1,000. o'f the ;year previous- Th births numbered 16,61(, or 3(5.4 per irthe 1,000,0as compared with ',i7.1 of . End of the Michigan Industi y Is In Sight Says Mining Expert. A despatch from Detroit, Mich., says: That the end Qf the copper mining industry in Michigan is in sight, and that,it will not be many years before the supposedly inex- haustible supply of ore in the up- per peninsula will have been reach_ ed, is among the startling disclo- sures isclo sures made by James R. Finlay, the New York mining expert, who has been appraising the mine pro- perties of the State at the instance of the Legislature for the past three months. .e is report was sub- mitted to the State Board of Equa- lization on Wednesday. The Board will use this report as a new basis for taxing the mines of the State. Isis outlook for the iron district is more encouraging, and the valua- tion he placesen the iron mines is considerably :higher. The iron district is appraised at $119,485,000. In his opinion the resources of this region are sufficient to maintain an output of 40,000,000 tons a year for 40 years. 3 RING MANt7EL'S I\COII,. Portuguese Government Says Ilei Owes $10,090,000. A despatch from Lisbon says: That the Governriient has ascer- tained that King Manuel is indebt ed to the country in the suns o4 $10,000,000, and accordiingIy will, withdraw Manner $ monthly remitH tante, as his property is valued rib only $5,000,000. It is said that the Government has asked Kiilgi Victor Emmanuel of Italy to':saet-.l tl•e the debts of the late. Queens Maria Pia, which amount to $`t,- 280,000, and that the King has re fused.